Re: gEDA-user: pcb, how to remove mm garbage (very short lines)?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 09:50 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > The optimiser also sometimes ended up moving / deleting nodes in
> > line-segments, in such a way as to change the line segment's angle,
> > producing a new line which violated DRC, or in the occasional case,
> > shorted the track to another.
> 
> The optimizer should never turn a good board into a bad board, that's
> always a bug.  The logic in the optimizer isn't that simple, though,
> so fixing said bugs may be tricky.  Sample boards (and/or patches ;)
> welcome.

Indeed. Unfortunately, test-cases for these kind of things are to build
(hence me disabling the key binding rather then winging on-list in the
first instance). If I can figure out a simple way to reproduce, then
I'll surely send along all the help I can to get the problem fixed.


-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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